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The Museum of Useless Efforts
In The Museum of Useless Efforts Cristina Peri Rossi renders familiar, everyday situations uncanny through lyrical reinterpretations; at the same time, she somehow makes the uncanny appear quite ordinary. Crafting peculiar and a patient receives a frantic call from his psychoanalyst, distraught that his wife has taken a new lover.
Paperback, 156 pages
Published
April 1st 2001
by UNP - Bison Books
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The precise rendering of the dreamworld, shared archetypal images and journeys, and a supreme sense of irony are among the facets of this literary gem -- in the Spanish original... Unfortunately, much of Peri Rossi's tone is diminished, her strong voice quieted in the translation.
Based on the 'Goodreads' system, I'd give the original a 5+ -- the translation a 3.5 - 4.0...
I AM biased -- I have a personal bone to pick with the translator, but the weakness of the translation can be as...more
Based on the 'Goodreads' system, I'd give the original a 5+ -- the translation a 3.5 - 4.0...
I AM biased -- I have a personal bone to pick with the translator, but the weakness of the translation can be as...more
I was sure I'd like this, but you know what they say about being sure... It makes a SHHH out of R and E.
Anyway, I found the writing to be too precise and lacking in depth. It was like trying to read a very varnished and shellacked piece of wood. I couldn't keep my mind concentrated on the words, because there wasn't anything to hold onto but description.
Anyway, I found the writing to be too precise and lacking in depth. It was like trying to read a very varnished and shellacked piece of wood. I couldn't keep my mind concentrated on the words, because there wasn't anything to hold onto but description.
I loved this collection of short to very short stories. Full of strangeness and whimsy.
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Uruguayan novelist, poet, and author of short stories.
Considered a leading light of the post-1960s period of prominence of the Latin-American novel, she has written more than 37 works. She was born in Montevideo, Uruguay but was exiled in 1972, and moved to Spain, where she became a citizen in 1975. As of 2005[update] she lives in Barcelona, where she continues to write fiction and wor...more
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Considered a leading light of the post-1960s period of prominence of the Latin-American novel, she has written more than 37 works. She was born in Montevideo, Uruguay but was exiled in 1972, and moved to Spain, where she became a citizen in 1975. As of 2005[update] she lives in Barcelona, where she continues to write fiction and wor...more
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